Slavs and Tatars on Reading as a Collective Activity - Video Interview

The founders of the anonymous art collective Slavs and Tatars bring together their diverse Polish, Iranian and American backgrounds as they explore the history, culture and politics of the Eurasian borderland and attempting to revive the culture of the region. They started out as a sort of "reading group" or "book club", sharing rare or out-of-print publications of an anthropological and linguistic bent with each other and a growing group of friends. Their evolution into the production of works of art and their own publications was a gradual, but a natural one, always grounded in the "act of reading together, not just the act of reading, but also redeeming the act of reading".

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Beats of Freedom tells the story of rock music during the Communist era in the People's Republic of Poland through the eyes of Chris Salewicz, a British journalist of Polish heritage. It's a film about the sound that gave people a dose of freedom, about one of few aspects of everyday life that gave a bit of elbow room in an otherwise constrained society Read more »about: Beats of Freedom - Video Trailer

The I, Culture Orchestra auditions took place in Poland, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine. The project, initiated by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, is one of the pillars of the cultural programme for the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union Read more »about: I, Culture Orchestra Auditions Video

Poland is a European nation and Polish culture is part of European culture. I, CULTURE aims to forge a cultural a dialogue between Poland and Europe, between those individuals who create culture and those who receive it. Read more »about: I, Culture Video